Unkown Caller trying to rip off coldplays lost...

[KUEFC09U2]

Accoring to this:

"Then we turn to the downside. ‘Unknown Caller’ has to be one of the more bizarre and incomprehensible songs, with the irritating lyrics seemingly taken from random computer-related jargon, and sounds like a bad attempt to rip-off Coldplay’s ‘Lost!’ from Viva La Vida. ‘Cedars of Lebanon’ is certainly quiet and calming, but the appalling lyrics (Bono really wasn’t on the ball that day) contrives to make it rather dull. ‘Fez- Being Born’ is supposed to be experimental, but in reality it sounds like something from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The title song itself is merely average U2, and is neither here nor there. "

they listed Crazy tonight and SUC as high points, and magnificent as being "run of the mill"

 

[coolian2]

i love sauce.

 

[lov12113]

I listen to Unknown Caller and Coldplay's Lost all the time. Never once did it cross my mind that U2 was ripping off Coldplay, because these 2 songs are completely different.

Anybody who describes Magnificent as "run of the mill" is smoking crack. Some bad crack. The general consensus seems to be that Magnificent is this album's standout track. (And that's saying a lot because this album has some damn good tracks).

 

[Ronnie269]

Yup I hear no comparisons either,

Ye could say Winter was a Coldplay rip off,
well not a rip off, but heavilly inspired by them.

on a different note a friend of mine said the outro riff of NLOTH is a Kings Of Leon rip off! I dont listen to KOL much, anyone have any idea what tune he meant?

 

[digitize]

Ye could say Winter was a Coldplay rip off,
well not a rip off, but heavilly inspired by them.

Was it? NLOTH and VLV were, for the most part, in production at the same time, with the same primary producer (NLOTH's production just went nine months longer).

 

[cobl04]

I listen to Unknown Caller and Coldplay's Lost all the time. Never once did it cross my mind that U2 was ripping off Coldplay, because these 2 songs are completely different.

Anybody who describes Magnificent as "run of the mill" is smoking crack. Some bad crack. The general consensus seems to be that Magnificent is this album's standout track. (And that's saying a lot because this album has some damn good tracks).

i think run of the mill's giving it credit, personally, and i'm yet to try pot

 

[bigjohn2441]

who's coldplay?

 

[mikal]

everyone rips everyone off.

and UC sounds nothing like Lost. i honestly have no idea how anyone could come to that conclusion.

 

[martha]

who's coldplay?

This.

 

[intedomine]

lol, nothing like each other.

Lost! is THE best song of '08 in my book,

If Unknown Caller was a rip off of Lost!, U2 suck massively.

 

[bram]

Am I missing something, or is there no source listed?

 

[mikal]

Am I missing something, or is there no source listed?

the source is "they".

 

[whackjester]

It's obviously that "they" were playing a joke since Standy Up Comedy was listed as a high point of the album.

 

[mikal]

"They" live.

 

[KUEFC09U2]

The source was the "Wessex Scene Online" here is the link:

U2: No Line On The Horizon :: Wessex Scene Online :: Student News

 

[Acrobat51829]

they listed Crazy tonight and SUC as high points, and magnificent as being "run of the mill"

Woops!

I wonder what they'd say if they got a hold of Winter.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

LOST! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Unknown Caller

VLV >>>>>>>>> NLOTH

 

[BVS]

SUC - favorite

Enough said...

 

[BVS]

LOST! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Unknown Caller

VLV >>>>>>>>> NLOTH

No, you see > means 'greater than', you meant to use < which means 'less than'.

Understandable mistake.

 

[RedRocksU2]

who's coldplay?

A type of ice cream??

 

[Pero]

look
some people just can't stand bono and by that u2 also
that's why people say those things.

my 0.02$

 

[RedRocksU2]

the source is "they".

This reminds me of the "I know people" thingy.

 

[dan_smee]

wasnt UC being recorded befre VLV came out

 

[corianderstem]

... and sounds like a bad attempt to rip-off Coldplay’s ‘Lost!’ from Viva La Vida.

That's the funniest thing I've heard all day!

Granted, it's only 8:32 in the morning, so I'll probably hear something much funnier.

 

[FitzChivalry]

and magnificent as being "run of the mill"

I'm going to have to agree with them on this one. They've been doing this type of song since 1984 and 'Pride'. As far as U2 goes, it is pretty run-of-the mill for them.

'Magnificent' is a good, decent song, but it is nowhere as great as all the adulation it gets on this board.

 

[RedRocksU2]

Ethan, you are not allowed in my car for ever.






lol

 

[FitzChivalry]

Good thing I'm flying to Vegas!




















j/k I'll be a carpoolin' fool to Vegas. Woot.

 

[The Sad Punk]

Wow, that's a pretty screwy comparison. Lost! is some rubbish piano ballad about a bunch of plane crash survivors on an island where crazy things happen and I can barely remember how it goes because it's so goddamn boring, and Unknown Caller is, well, it's about computers and shit, so it's totally not a rip off or nothing.

i think run of the mill's giving it credit, personally, and i'm yet to try pot

It's a very middle-of-the-road song, for sure. Nothing remarkable about it.

 

[gvox]

I think it's great. UC, that is...

 

[VintagePunk]

on a different note a friend of mine said the outro riff of NLOTH is a Kings Of Leon rip off! I dont listen to KOL much, anyone have any idea what tune he meant?

Huh. I've never heard that, but the guitar solo in KOL's Use Somebody (starting around 3:05) sounds an awful lot like a nod to Miracle Drug to me.